We are pleased to announce that we have completed our research into the Lunette Battery at Newhaven, East Sussex. Though the site is easily identified just below the Victorian Fort on the Western Harbour wall of the port many people just park their cars and walk right by it; which is a shame as it really is a fascinating site. Our research has uncovered how the Lunette came about and the changes it went through before becoming the ruin of today. Sadly it suffered the same fate s of many of these 19th Century defences in as much as it cost a considerable sum of money to build and yet remained virtually untested in practice. Read our article on the Newhaven Lunette Battery here on our website and look out for more features coming soon at blighty-at-war.net. Best Wishes Steve

It will be interesting to see just how much attention will be directed to this important event in the run up to the day. We should not forget the 60, 000 British Commonwealth soldiers who were killed or wounded on that fateful morning 100 years ago; nor should we forget the speculated 200,000 German and 100,000 French soldiers lost during the same campaign which ended in November 1916.There will be an important commemoration event at Thiepval, Somme in France on the afternoon of 1st July 2016 but we wonder just how much attention the media here in Britain will focus on this?We were particularly annoyed that one of our local museums here in East Sussex, namely the Redoubt Museum at Eastbourne which houses a large collection of Sussex Regimental History, has chosen not to do anything at all to mark the Somme Centenary! Let us hope that other museums and curators will not follow suit. This event simply has to be voiced and we here at blighty-at-war.net will be there in France on the day and we should like to further voice our opinion that Britain needs to be a part of Europe no matter what, if only to honour all those lives lost in maintaining its freedom from tyranny in all the wars of the 19th and 20th Centuries.